Written by a sociologist, this work is devoted exclusively to a general sociology of mathematics and provides examples of different ways of thinking about mathematics sociologically. The survey of mathematical traditions covers ancient China, the Arabic-Islamic world, India, and Europe.
Written by a sociologist, this work is devoted exclusively to a general sociology of mathematics and provides examples of different ways of thinking a...
This is the first book by a sociologist devoted exclusively to a general sociology of mathematics. The author provides examples of different ways of thinking about mathematics sociologically. The survey of mathematical traditions covers ancient China, the Arabic-Islamic world, India, and Europe. Following the leads of classical social theorists such as Emile Durkheim, Restivo develops the idea that mathematical concepts and ideas are collective representations, and that it is mathematical communities that create mathematics, not individual mathematicians. The implications of the sociology of...
This is the first book by a sociologist devoted exclusively to a general sociology of mathematics. The author provides examples of different ways of t...
